Ted Turner

Ted Turner

19-Nov-1938


Andorra


Businessman

Ted Turner was born in Ohio, in 1938. He started working for his father's company, Turner Advertising and became president and CEO in 1963. He later renamed Turner Broadcasting Company and founded the first 24-news network, CNN, which grew up in 1980. Warner bought Turner Broadcasting for $ 7.5 billion in 1996. Turner had been married to actress Jane Fonda from 1991-2001.

QUOTES BY Ted Turner


"I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business."

"If I had any humility I would be perfect."

"Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million."

"My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job."

"Life is a game. Money is how we keep score."

"You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for."

"All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it."

"I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out."

"Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world."

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